There is no limit to the amount of misfortune a person can take in via thae Internet, and there’s no easy way to properly calibrate it—no guidebook for how to expand your heart to accommodate these simultaneous scales of human experience; no way to train your heart to separate the banal from the profound. Our ability to change things is not increasing at the same rate as our ability to know about them. No, 2016 is not the worst year ever, but it’s the year I started feeling like the Internet would only ever induce the sense of powerlessness that comes when the sphere of what a person can influence remains static, while the sphere of what can influence us seems to expand without limit, allowing no respite at all.

Jia Tolentino

bluedelliquanti:

Have you all watched Monster Factory, the series where Justin and Griffin McElroy pick a video game and use the character creator to make horrifying physics-defying creatures? I was rewatching the Mass Effect 2 episode and talking with my friends about how rad it would be to actually have a multidimensional race that mimics the species around them but gets them horribly wrong.

“We’re using the same molecular components! What does it matter if the calcium’s all on the outside? Why is everyone on this station screaming?”

A Simplified Guide To The Sexualities

Homosexual: sexual attraction to houses and other building like structures.
Heterosexual: an undying lust for Macklemore.
Asexual: attraction to any and all things beginning with the letter A.
Pansexual: a desire for pots, pans, and other kitchen utensils.
Polysexual: sexual attraction to polygons.
Bisexual: Attraction to the 9th century Chinese army officer Bi Shiduo.
Demisexual: Never ending love of demi lovato